OIC: Playing the Victim Card- Qur'an Burning The OIC propaganda machine grinds on. I accept their machinations as an opportunity to expose their al-Taqiyya. They held an emergency meeting after International Judge the Qur'an Day. The primary output of that meeting was a letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
The letter is reproduced below. Due to the target rich environment, I once again resort to footnoting. The footnotes are linked to my commentary which follows below the horizontal line. Clicking a superscript will bring the comment into view. After reading my comment, press the Back Space key to return to your place in the text.
A/65/802–S/2011/210 General Assembly Security Council
Sixty-fifth session Sixty-sixth year
Agenda item 68 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human
rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
- Letter dated 29 March 2011 from the Permanent Representative of
- Tajikistan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
On behalf of the Ambassadorial Group of the Organization of the Islamic
Conference in New York, I have the honour to convey that the Group held an
emergency meeting on Friday, 25 March 2011, to discuss the despicable act of the
burning of a copy of the Holy Koran
1 by two pastors, following a mock trial in a
church on 20 March 2011 in Florida, United States of America.
This provocative act
2, which has hurt the sentiments of the 1.5 billion Muslims
of the world, was strongly condemned by the OIC Group as an act of advocacy of
incitement to religious hatred
3, discrimination and violence
4 against Islam and
Muslims. The OIC Ambassadors urged the international community in general and
you in particular to openly and strongly condemn this act of extreme bigotry
5 and
religious hatred.
6 I am enclosing the text of the statement issued by the OIC Ambassadorial
Group in New York on this subject, with a request for circulation to the entire
United Nations membership (see annex).
As you will see in the statement, the OIC Ambassadorial Group called upon
you, as well as reiterated the call made by the OIC Group in Geneva to the High
Commissioner for Human Rights, to express unequivocal condemnation of the
insidious desecration of the holy book
7 of Islam and show action-oriented leadership
8 to tackle the growing manifestations of religious intolerance and discrimination and
incitement to hatred and violence
9 based on religion.
The OIC Group strongly believes that the United Nations has an important role
to play in ensuring peace and harmony among the peoples and nations of the world
10.
Accordingly, in your capacity as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, we
expect you to take the necessary steps to fight such insidious tendencies, to protect
multiculturalism and promote peace and harmony that are fundamental to the
peaceful coexistence of mankind
11.
I should be grateful if you would have the present letter and its annex
circulated as a document of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, under
agenda item 68 (b), and of the Security Council.
(Signed) Sirodjidin Aslov
Ambassador
Permanent Representative
- Annex to the letter dated 29 March 2011 from the Permanent
- Representative of Tajikistan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
- Group of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in New York
- strongly condemns the sacrilegious act of burning of the Holy
- Koran in Florida as an act of advocacy of incitement to religious
- hatred, discrimination and violence
25 March 2011
The Ambassadorial Group of the Organization of the Islamic Conference at the
United Nations, New York, at an emergency meeting convened today, expressed its
strong condemnation of the despicable act of the burning of a copy of the Koran by
Pastors Wayne Sapp and Terry Jones in Gainesville, Florida, United States of
America, on 20 March 2011. Calling it an act of extremists guided by their hatred
towards other cultures and religions, the OIC Group regretted that it took place in a
church, a sacred place itself, reserved for prayers and remembrance of God.
The OIC Group shared the disappointment and concern expressed by the
Secretary-General of the OIC over this reprehensible act of extreme bigotry, which
has severely hurt the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims all over the world, and
cautioned that if necessary conditions were not created by the international
community to prevent a recurrence of such Islamophobic acts, it would have grave
repercussions over interfaith harmony as well as global peace, security and stability
12.
The Group urged the international community to unanimously condemn these
acts that are clear examples of advocacy of incitement to hatred, discrimination and
violence based on religion
13. It was further highlighted that such acts, when left
unattended, provide fuel to extremist thoughts and elements in different societies
that lead to undermining peaceful coexistence and harmony among peoples and
societies. While appreciating the condemnatory statement issued by the United
States in the general debate of the Human Rights Council on 22 March 2011 and
other statements by interfaith and community leaders in the United States, the Group
hoped that the United States Administration would take appropriate actions against
the perpetrators of these acts in accordance with its national and international
obligations
14.
The OIC Group also called upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations
and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to express their unequivocal
condemnation of the insidious desecration of the holy book of Islam and show
action-oriented leadership to tackle the growing problem of religious intolerance
15,
discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence based on religion and belief.
The Group stated that at a time when Muslims around the world continue to be
confronted with ever-increasing instances of intolerance, negative stereotyping,
stigmatization, discrimination and violence on the basis of their religion, the OIC sponsored
resolution adopted by consensus on 24 March 2011 by the Human Rights
Council in Geneva, entitled “Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and
stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence, and violence against
persons based on religion or belief”, should be seen as the confirmation of the
sincere commitment
16 of OIC to the promotion of a global culture of respect
17,
tolerance and peace among all, irrespective of religious and cultural backgrounds
and traditions.
OIC Ambassadors further reiterated the strong commitment of OIC to the
promotion of interfaith and intercultural dialogue
18 and the need to preserve the
multicultural fabric of our societies that is fundamental to peaceful coexistence
among peoples, cultures and nations.